Variant data vs Flattened to string

Hi all

I haven't worked a lot with the type of a variant in LabVIEW and after having read about a few items, I wonder what is the fundamental difference between a flattened chain and a variant data type.

I read somewhere that the variant data types also contain metadata that includes the data type there and again we need to wire the data type to the function 'variant data. Why?

What is the case of the use of the variant data type? I think essentially to a use case where flattened string cannot do a job which variant data type can do.

Thank you

Ritesh

Use the Set attribute varying function.

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